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March 14, 2013

What is refined salt?

Refined salt or table salt is 97.5 percent sodium chloride (NaCL) and 2.5 percent chemicals as moisture absorbents and iodine.

The danger of a low-salt diet

In our last session, I wrote that doctors recommend a maximum of 2,300 mg of sodium daily for healthy people. Often 1,500 mg. or as low as 1,000 mg is prescribed for people with blood pressure problems. Low salt diets are not associated with a reduction in blood pressure for a vast majority of the population.

How salt got its reputation

Without salt, life is impossible. Salt is as important as oxygen and water. Back before 450 BC, Hippocrates, the father of medicine, recognized the healing powers of salt for infections, clearing congestion, and curing disease of the spleen.

Where to get alternative health information

Since we have talked much about statin drugs, I am going to recommend a book entitled “Lipitor, Thief of Memory: Statin Drugs and the Misguided War on Cholesterol” by Duane Graveline, M.D.

The other side of the coin, part 2

These drugs are used to lower cholesterol, but in that process, they have been linked to over 300 different side effects. These include muscle pain and weakness, increased cancer risk, immune system suppression, and decreased liver function, according to Dr. Joseph Mercola.

The other side of the coin, part 1

My class members, many of whom are on 10 to 15 meds each, tell me that when they go to their doctors and ask them to take them off some of their prescriptions, especially statins, that the doctors reply they need them; many for life.

Is alternative health the answer?

I want to thank the people in my classes for the interest they have shown in learning many things that are completely contrary to the medical profession and massive false advertising. Some of you have questioned this new philosophy and others have asked where I get my information.

A dream come true

It took some 40 years for me to put the pieces together on how to get healthy and stay that way. Sometime around 2005 I was starting to get restless. I had stored much information but started to realize my knowledge wasn’t helping others.

An important discovery

It was 1964 that I left the hospital field about ready to deliver my first child. In my heart I knew that I could never return to dietetics the way it was practiced. For a short time, I kept up my registration as a dietitian, going to all the required seminars. In 1959 I had become a “born again Christian,” accepting Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior.

My hospital experiences

My responsibilities as a hospital dietitian included taking the diet prescription from the doctor and making it into a menu specific for that patient, such as low calorie, low salt, low fiber, diabetic, etc, making rounds visiting patients, giving outpatient instruction on their specific diets when they went home, and various other duties.

College and a career

In 1951 I was off to college at the University of Iowa. By my junior year I had decided to enter the medical field. I thought I might take up nursing, but the sight of blood made me faint. Since my mother always talked about eating a carrot for its vitamin A and orange juice for its C, I decided learning about what we put into our bodies might be interesting.

High cholesterol helps older Americans

The cholesterol craze is still in full swing. Some of the people who can benefit the least from cholesterol control are the most involved in this fad.

The serious side of statin drugs

A function of the liver is to make cholesterol according to the set point of the body. It has a genetically determined level of cholesterol it prefers, and it will try to maintain this level.

Side effects of statin drugs

Taking statin drugs not only deprives your body of beneficial cholesterol for important body functions but plays havoc with numerous painful, debilitating side effects:

Cholesterolphobia: The fear of unwanted cholesterol

As stated in the previous article, normal cholesterol used to be 250 to 300 or even higher. Then around 1984, the parameters changed to 200. Recently, they were lowered to 180 and even down to 150 for people who have had heart attacks.

The importance of cholesterol in the body

Every cell in the body contains cholesterol, and without it, you would die. The blood serum cholesterol reading 30 to 40 years ago used to be 250 to 300 and considered normal. Seniors, especially over 70 years of age, live longer, healthier lives with this amount.

Americans are overmedicating

130 million Americans swallow, inject, inhale, infuse, and spray on prescribed medications every month. They buy more than any country in the world. The number of prescriptions has increased by 2/3’s over the past decade to 3.5 billion yearly. Rising ranks of doctors, researchers, and public health experts say that Americans are overmedicating themselves.

How vitamin D works in our bodies

In spite of what has been said about the need for sunshine, people will not choose it for various reasons. These people will need to depend on a supplement. This needs to be D3, the same as getting sun.

The real causes of skin cancer

Studies have shown that the lack of sunlight increases the risk of skin cancer. Skin cancer is more likely found on parts of the body covered up or not exposed to sunlight. It is also found among people with indoor jobs or who sit under fluorescent lights.